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Identity Politics and the New Genetics

Re/Creating Categories of Difference and Belonging
Studies of the Biosocial Society, Band 6 1. Aufl.

von: Katharina Schramm, David Skinner, Richard Rottenburg
30,99 €
Verlag:	Berghahn Books
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	01.01.2012
ISBN/EAN:	9780857452542
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	230

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Titelbeschreibung

Racial and ethnic categories have appeared in recent scientific work in novel ways and in relation to a variety of disciplines: medicine, forensics, population genetics and also developments in popular genealogy. Once again, biology is foregrounded in the discussion of human identity. Of particular importance is the preoccupation with origins and personal discovery and the increasing use of racial and ethnic categories in social policy. This new genetic knowledge, expressed in technology and practice, has the potential to disrupt how race and ethnicity are debated, managed and lived. As such, this volume investigates the ways in which existing social categories are both maintained and transformed at the intersection of the natural (sciences) and the cultural (politics). The contributors include medical researchers, anthropologists, historians of science and sociologists of race relations; together, they explore the new and challenging landscape where biology becomes the stuff of identity.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments
 <a>Introduction: Ideas in Motion: Making Sense of Identity After DNA</a> Katharina Schramm, David Skinner, Richard Rottenburg
 <a>Chapter 1. ‘Race’ as a Social Construction in Genetics</a> Andrew Smart, Richard Tutton, Paul Martin, George Ellison
 <a>Chapter 2. Mobile Identities and Fixed Categories: Forensic DNA and the Politics of Racialised Data</a> David Skinner
 <a>Chapter 3. Race, Kinship and the Ambivalence of Identity</a> Peter Wade
 <a>Chapter 4. Identity, DNA, and the State in Post-Dictatorship Argentina</a> Noa Vaisman
 <a>Chapter 5. ‘Do You Have Celtic, Jewish, Germanic Roots?’ – Applied Swiss History Before and After DNA</a> Marianne Sommer
 <a>Chapter 6. Irish DNA: Making Connections and Making Distinctions in Y-Chromosome Surname Studies</a> Catherine Nash
 <a>Chapter 7. Genomics en route: Ancestry, Heritage, and the Politics of Identity Across the Black Atlantic</a> Katharina Schramm
 <a>Chapter 8. Biotechnological Cults of Affliction? Race, Rationality, and Enchantment in Personal Genomic Histories</a> Stephan Palmié
 Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index

Autorenportrait

Richard Rottenburg holds a chair in Social Anthropology at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg and is Max Planck Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. He has written and edited books on the Sudan, economic anthropology, the transcultural production of objectivity and theorizing postneoliberal governance. Among these is Far-Fetched Facts: A Parable of Development Aid (2009).